Research activities involve a variety of techniques/methods used in both human (randomised controlled trials, epidemiological analysis, laboratory/experimental work) and animal studies (electrophysiology).

Award year

Qualification

Institution

AFHEA

ATQ02 - Recognised by the HEA as an Associate Fellow

2010

MSc

Master of Science

Neuroscience

University College London

2008

PGCLTHE

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Public Health

University College London

2008

PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Health Psychology

University of London

2004

MSc

Master of Science

Health Psychology

King's College London

2003

MA

Master of Arts

Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology

University of Oxford

Lion Shahab is an Associate Professor in Health Psychology. After graduating from the University of Oxford in psychology, philosophy and physiology in 2003, he gained an MRC-funded masters in health psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry in 2004 and went on to complete an MRC-funded PhD in 2008 on the role of smoking-related biomarkers in smoking cessation under the supervision of Professor Robert West at UCL. While working as a research associate in the Health Behaviour Research Centre, he also completed a masters in neuroscience and gained his Stage II training qualification in health psychology at UCL under the supervision of Professor Susan Michie. In 2011 he took up a lectureship in health psychology and continues his research into different aspects of tobacco use, more recently expanding into other health behaviours and mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

The Department was well represented at this
year’s population domain symposium, with several oral and poster presentations.
Camille Lassale was awarded the prize for the best ECR oral presentation for
her paper ‘Inflammatory markers are associated with age-related hearing
impairment: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing’, and Andrea Smith was
highly commended for her poster entitled ‘Food fussiness and food neophobia
share a common aetiology in early childhood’.